The Washington Post: NSA Collects Data Directly from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple Servers
The Washington Post reports a top-secret data analysis program for the National Security Agency, which, among others, runs directly on Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple servers. "The NSA and the FBI sit directly on the central servers of nine leading American Internet companies, extracting video, audio, photos, mail, documents and communication logs that allow you to track the movement of people and their contacts over time," the newspaper writes.
The details about the closed program, the PRISM Project, are vague, but judging by all the NSA appealed to the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence for permission to “open these servers for the FBI’s Data Intercept Technology Unit.”
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“With a few clicks and confirmation that the subject is suspected of terrorism, espionage or the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the analyst had full access to Facebook's advanced search and tracking functions of various other online social services,” explains WP.
The NSA, thus, could collect data on the suspect, “jumping over” to those with whom he interacts and expanding the potential circle of suspects virtually to infinity.
Most of the IT companies mentioned in the article reject such accusations.
Facebook: “We don’t give government organizations any access to our servers, complying with all laws in providing access to personal data.”
Microsoft: "We provide data only on a court order and do not participate in government tracking programs."
Google: “We take great care in protecting user data. We provide them only by law and we carefully consider each request. ”
Yesterday it also became known that the NSA was monitoring ALL subscribers of the Verizon cellular provider.
Today, Obama flew to Silicon Valley to resolve the situation.
The details about the closed program, the PRISM Project, are vague, but judging by all the NSA appealed to the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence for permission to “open these servers for the FBI’s Data Intercept Technology Unit.”
')
“With a few clicks and confirmation that the subject is suspected of terrorism, espionage or the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the analyst had full access to Facebook's advanced search and tracking functions of various other online social services,” explains WP.
The NSA, thus, could collect data on the suspect, “jumping over” to those with whom he interacts and expanding the potential circle of suspects virtually to infinity.
Most of the IT companies mentioned in the article reject such accusations.
Facebook: “We don’t give government organizations any access to our servers, complying with all laws in providing access to personal data.”
Microsoft: "We provide data only on a court order and do not participate in government tracking programs."
Google: “We take great care in protecting user data. We provide them only by law and we carefully consider each request. ”
Yesterday it also became known that the NSA was monitoring ALL subscribers of the Verizon cellular provider.
Today, Obama flew to Silicon Valley to resolve the situation.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/182450/
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